In competitions, there are always winners and losers. Since the Government announced this week which areas of the UK it would be pouring millions into, it is the losers that seem to have dominated the conversation.
Because it is no ordinary contest when the losers include multi-million-pound projects in deprived areas. We've had many winners across Nottinghamshire from the second round of the Government's Levelling Up Fund, but one losing project stood out as vividly as its physical self does in the heart of Nottingham.
The Broad Marsh project has the potential to create thousands of local jobs in a city with much to be proud of, but with much deprivation, too. Surely, here was a prime example of what levelling up is supposedly all about.
